Kayin State

Kayin State is a state of Myanmar, with Hpa-An serving as its capital. It became a part of Burma during the mid-11th century after conquest by the Pagan Empire, and the third of the state below the Salween River was seized by the British after the First Anglo-Burmese War of the 1820s and the rest after the Second Anglo-Burmese War of 1852. The Karen people were receptive to Christian missionaries, with a large number of them converting. In 1949, after Burmese independence, the separatist Karen National Union rebelled against the government. In 2014, Kayin State had a population of 1,574,079 people, with 84.5% being Buddhist, 9.5% Christian, 4.6% Muslim, .6% Hindu, .1% animist, and .7% other.